Mira Nair Quotes
What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
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We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.
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Most men have nothing in their heads but their physical needs; put them on a desert island with nothing to occupy their minds and they would go insane. They lack real motive. The curse of civilization is boredom.
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The problem with celebrity hot guys is they either get old or go off the grid. That's why a book is so much better... a hot guy can live in your imagination and stay hot forever!
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.
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I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.
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I'm not conventional. I try to be raw and vulnerable and gross.
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We're looking for the early adopter who considers style to be an important part of the purchase decision. But they'll be getting a practical car with plenty of trunk space they can use for picking up building supplies at Home Depot.
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What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.
